PERSIAN LIONS, PERSIAN LAMBS

About the Book

At the height of the Cold War a young American teaches in provincial Iran, near the Russian border. His students reveal their inner selves, their struggles to be modern, while still caught in ancient Persian traditions. Hailed as a travel book in the great tradition, the Chicago Tribune called it "a delicious rarity that one is sorry to finish but happy to recommend," and the London Sunday Telegraph: "Observant and often poignant, it is profound in its questions." The New York Times Book Review: "An urbane and well-written account Mr. Harnack has eminently succeeded."

About the Author

Curtis Harnack?s linked novels set in rural Midwest are The Work of an Ancient Hand, Love and Be Silent, and Limits of the Land. He wrote Gentlemen on the Prairie, a history of British settlers; a collection of short fiction, Under My Wings Everything Prospers; an acclaimed memoir, We Have All Gone Away, plus a sequel, The Attic.